We're joined by David Andolfatto, VP of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In a recent paper, he explores the impact central bank digital currencies on the monopolistic banking sector. Read More

We’re joined by James Prestwich, co-founder and CEO at Summa. Summa designs and implements cross-chain financial contracts and recently executed the first dutch auction in which participants bought ethereum based NFTs trustlessly with bitcoin. Read More

An abridged overview of production systems.
At a recent offsite with the Aragon One team, I presented a lightning talk about state-of-the-art systems for privately buying, selling, and using cryptocurrency.
A PDF of the slides is published here. The slides are pretty self-explanatory, so I’m sharing as-is. If there are any questions or feedback about the content, I’m happy to discuss in the comment section.
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We're joined by Nick Sullivan, Chief Cryptographer at Cloudflare. They recently launched an IPFS gateway and features which allow users to have strong guarantees as to the integrity of the content. Read More

We're joined by Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger. With dozens of networks in production, and backed by companies like IBM, Hyperleger is the most widely used blockchain technology for permissioned networks. Read More

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Coil Co-Founders Stefan Thomas and Ben Sharafian joined us to discuss the broken state of web monetization and why streaming payments to creators using ILP has a chance to change the course of the web. Read More

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Former Ethereum CTO and Parity Founder Gavin Wood joined us to discuss the early days of Ethereum, how Parity came about, their new blockchain framework Substrate and the case for on-chain governance. Read More

We were joined by law professor Angela Walch to discuss her controversial ideas surrounding the role of trust in blockchain networks and why regulators should consider treating software developers as fiduciaries. Read More

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The legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer joins us to discuss his paper on DAOs. It explores how a decentralized, transparent DAO making decisions using prediction markets could create more efficient democratic systems. Read More

Political Economist Glen Weyl joined us to discuss his new book 'Radical Markets', which explores how the structure of capitalism and democracy could be uprooted to lead to a more just society. Read More

Founded by a team of researchers and systems designers from Northwestern and Cornel University, bloXroute is a layer-0 scaling solution which allows practically every blockchain network to “scale today.” Read More

December 18, 2018

#266 David Andolfatto: The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the Banking Sector